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Maybe I'm just looking for perfection. I defentely was spoiled by trying bitkeeper. To me subversion looks like just a small improvment over CVS. File renames and similar things are cool but I definetely can live without them - I will not switch to subversion just because of them. What I really need, what really whould save my and co-workers time is robust support for distributed development and robust handling of branching and merging. Subversion is nowhere close to that.

I felt the same way, until somebody persuaded me to try it for a week. I now can't imagine going back to CVS unless forced. I really would give it a whirl - especially since you can now use the standalone svnserve server rather than having to muck around getting an Apache2 DAV server up and running.

I have to admit I try and avoid branch/merge at all costs since I find the reintegration pain worse than the avoiding-branching pain - but I understand that isn't always possible. Personally I prefer subversion